[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 149 (Friday, August 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43276-43277]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16595]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 70-1151; NRC-2015-0039]
Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; Columbia Fuel Fabrication
Facility
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; request for comment and
public comment meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for
Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC's (WEC's) license renewal
application to continue to operate its Columbia Fuel Fabrication
Facility (CFFF) for an additional 40 years. The CFFF is located in
Hopkins, South Carolina, and manufactures nuclear fuel assemblies for
commercial nuclear power plants. The WEC's license renewal request, if
granted as proposed, would allow the CFFF to continue to be a source of
nuclear fuel for commercial nuclear power plants for 40 years from the
date the NRC approves the renewal.
DATES: The NRC staff will hold a virtual public meeting through online
webinar and teleconference call on the draft EIS at 6:00 p.m. (ET) on
August 26, 2021. The NRC staff will present the preliminary findings
documented in the draft EIS and receive public comments during this
virtual, transcribed public meeting. Members of the public are invited
to submit comments by September 20, 2021. Comments received after this
date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0039. Address
questions about Docket IDs to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624;
email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
Email comments to: [email protected].
Leave comments by voicemail at: 1-800-216-0881.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diana Diaz-Toro, telephone: 301-415-
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0930; email: [email protected] or Jean Trefethen, telephone: 301-
415-0867; email: [email protected]. Both are staff of the Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0039 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0039.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by email to [email protected]. The draft EIS can be found in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML21209A213.
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Project Website: Information related to the WEC project
can be accessed on the NRC's WEC website at https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/fc/westinghouse-fuel-fab-fac-sc-lc.html. Under the section
titled ``Operating,'' scroll down to ``Key Documents'' and click on
Draft EIS, NUREG-2248, Draft Report for Comment.
Public Libraries: A copy of the NRC staff's draft EIS will
be made accessible at the following public libraries (library access
and hours are determined by local policy):
Richland Public Library--Main: 1431 Assembly St.,
Columbia, SC 29201;
Richland Public Library--Lower Richland: 9019 Garners
Ferry Road, Hopkins, SC 29061; and
Richland Public Library--Eastover: 608 Main Street,
Eastover, SC 29044.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0039. The NRC cautions you not to
include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be
publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all
comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the
comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Meeting Information
The NRC is announcing that staff will hold a virtual public meeting
as an online webinar and teleconference to receive comments on the
draft EIS. Video of the staff's presentation will be accessible online
at the webinar address and audio will only be accessible through the
telephone line. The telephone line will also be used for the public to
submit oral comments. A court reporter will be recording all comments
received during the webinar and the transcript of the meeting will be
made publicly available. The date and time for the public webinar is as
follows:
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Meeting Date Time Webinar information
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Virtual Public Meeting.............. August 26, 2021........ 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Webinar Access (Video):
(ET). Event address: https://usnrc.webex.com.Event Event number: 199 891 1794.
Event password: WESTDEIS.
Telephone Access (Audio):
Phone number: 1-800-369-3311.
Passcode: 5558821.
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Persons interested in attending this meeting should check the NRC's
Public Meeting Schedule web page at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg for
additional information, agenda for the meeting, and access information
for the webinar and telephone line.
III. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public comment the draft EIS for WEC's
license renewal application, which includes the NRC staff's analysis
that evaluates the environmental impacts of the proposed action and
alternatives to the proposed action. Based on the NRC staff's (i)
review of the license renewal application request, which includes the
environmental report, supplemental documents, and the licensee's
responses to the NRC staff's requests for additional information; (ii)
consultation with Federal, State, and Tribal agencies and input from
other stakeholders; and (iii) independent review as documented in the
assessments summarized in the draft EIS, the NRC staff has concluded
that the proposed action would result in small impacts on all resource
areas except for groundwater resources for which the impacts would be
small to moderate.
Dated: July 30, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jessie M. Quintero,
Chief, Environmental Review Materials Branch, Division of Rulemaking,
Environmental and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety,
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2021-16595 Filed 8-5-21; 8:45 am]
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